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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 1996Washington County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 3:36 PM EST for Washington County, Indiana. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1996, 3:36 PM EST (20:36 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1996, 4:30 PM EST
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 8, 4:05 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 60Salem, IN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 219 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 9:40 AM EST, 5 hours 56 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1037 AM EDT WED MAY 8 1996

TIME EDT     .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE        ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARK0S...

1430   EDT    ORANGE COUNTY               KY    REPORTS OF ROADS UNDER
5/8/96        ORANGE                            WATER ACROSS ALL PARTS
                                                OF THE COUNTY

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 6:41 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge64 min
May 8, 6:41 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge79 min
May 8, 9:46 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKHenry, Oldham, Trimble85 min
May 8, 4:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTrimble50 min
May 8, 4:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry, Oldham39 min
May 8, 4:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin, Shelby50 min
May 8, 5:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison, Scott48 min
May 8, 5:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry27 min
May 8, 5:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon, Nicholas42 min
May 8, 5:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette42 min
May 8, 5:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBath, Fleming42 min
May 8, 6:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Montgomery42 min
May 8, 6:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKRowan28 min
May 8, 6:47 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry73 min
May 8, 6:47 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry58 min
May 8, 8:05 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKDubois, Orange3 hr
May 8, 8:43 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKClark, Scott, Washington62 min
May 8, 3:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois, Orange54 min
May 8, 3:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Scott54 min
May 8, 4:18 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKScott27 min
May 8, 4:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison50 min
May 8, 4:28 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKJefferson17 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.